Re: Throwing exceptions

On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:30 , Germán Hüttemann Arza wrote:

> I need a way to throw a message in a function, when an exception  
> occurs, but I
> don't want to write again and again the same message in every place  
> I need to
> throw it. So, is there a way to handle this situation in a more  
> general
> manner?

The message is just a string. Assign the message to a variable and  
use the variable in place of the message. For example, in PL/pgSQL:

k_error_message := 'Boom! %';
RAISE EXCEPTION k_error_message, v_foo.id;

Hope that helps.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net